The most diverse Supreme Court ever confronts affirmative action

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : “I think he’s quite sincere in this belief that affirmative action is a kind of continuation of Jim Crow and old white supremacy.”Thomas has written dramatically about how racial preferences have affected his own life.
57% : Add to the mix this: Five of the nine justices have yet to cast a vote on affirmative action in a Supreme Court challenge.
55% : “He had all the advantages of affirmative action and went against it,” Rosa Parks said of Thomas in 1996.Jackson, the newest member of the court, described a similar disconnect when she first met Thomas.
49% : When Thomas writes about affirmative action, he “almost never focuses, or talks about, white victims.
47% : The most diverse group of Supreme Court justices in history will gather Monday to confront the issue that has vexed and deeply divided past courts: whether affirmative action in college admissions recognizes and nourishes a multicultural nation or impermissibly divides Americans by race.
46% : The Supreme Court “has grappled with this question of affirmative action in higher education and the permissible uses of race for many years, but the court is more conservative now than it has been in any of those decades,” said Washington lawyer Roman Martinez, a frequent Supreme Court practitioner.
46% : In Thomas’s mind, the real victims of affirmative action are black people,” Robin continued.
36% : The court’s most senior member, Justice Clarence Thomas, is an outspoken opponent of affirmative action: “racial paternalism … as poisonous and pernicious as any other form of discrimination,” he has written.

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